Forming in May 2006, Bull City is emerging from the Triangle area of North Carolina as a band with guitar strength, musical diversity and promise. Our sound can be energetic and raucous at one turn... emotional and haunting the next. With influences ranging from anyone to everyone, the group already has a distinct and recognizable vibe.

We have spent our first year rehearsing, recording and play shows in a variety of settings. This has given us a chance to further improve our skillz, all the while gaining much-needed driving force and chemistry. When it happens naturally, it's always good.

Except sometimes things don’t turn out as planned.

The recording of Guns & Butter was supposed to be an aesthetic adjustment back to the center for the four of us. The new album was conceived (and began as) a beer-soaked weekend of one-or-two-take, throw some microphones over the band, playing together in a room recording sessions – the attempt of musicians born and raised Southern to throw off our indie rock shackles and return to our classic rock roots by going way to the other side of those roots and cutting a rough and loose country album.

However, the blessing/curse of having Jim Brantley in our band intervened, and that weekend was followed by 4 months of obsessive compulsive detailing at Fire Hazard Studio (where Jim is a local hero, having recorded "famous local" bands like The Rosebuds and Schooner). Guns & Butter is the rough and loose yet meticulously polished product of this process.

While our story so far is relatively short, the voyage of the members to get to this point has been long and at times, incredible. Jim performed and toured with THE ASHLEY STOVE (Merge Records) and has developed a cult following for THE BRANTLEY FAMILY BAND. John Kurtz recorded and played with FISHING FOR YOUR GIRLFRIEND. Lance Westerlund has recently been heard with MY DEAR ELLA. Scott Carle was recently a member of MARAT (Morisen Records), and played for many years in DILLON FENCE (Mammoth/Atlantic) and later with COLLAPSIS (Cherry/Universal) – all groups that toured constantly and enjoyed worldwide exposure and recognition.

In the ever-changing, increasingly difficult world of music, many bands are playing music "for the sake of playing music." One listen will hopefully tell you that we play music for the sheer love of it.